Thursday, 7 May 2015

General Election 2015

Today people have been voting for who they want to run their constituency. The most MP's will win but the party must have 326 seats to win a majority and automatically become Prime Minister. If not (which happened in the General Election 2010) then the winning party must find another party to form a collation. There are 650 seats in total.
There are 7 main parties as followed:


Conservatives (currently lead a collation) - David Cameron (since 2005)
Labour - Ed Milliband (since 2010)
Liberal Democrats (currently in a collation) - Nick Clegg (since 2007)
UKIP - Nigal Farage (since 2010)
Green Party - Natlie Bennett (since 2012)
SNP (only for Scotland) - Nicola Sturgeon (since 2014)
Plaid Cyrmu (only for Wales) - Leanne Wood (since 2012)
DUP (only for Northern Ireland) - Peter Robinson (since 2008)
Sinn Fein (only for Northern Ireland) - Gerry Adams (since 2013)
SDLP (only for Northern Ireland) - Alisdair McConnel (since 2009)
Alliance Party (only for Northern Ireland) - David Ford (since 2010)
Respect - George Galloway (since 2012)
BNP - Adam Walker (since 2014)

Results in 2010: England

Conservatives: 294 seats (55%)
Labour: 191 seats (36%)
Liberal Democrats: 42 seats (8%)
UKIP: 2 seats (0%)
Green Party: 1 seat  (0%)
Others: 3 seats (1%)
Total: 533

Results in 2010: Scotland

Labour: 40 seats (68%)
Liberal Democrats: 11 seats (19%)
SNP: 6 seats (10%)
Conservatives: 1 seat (2%)
UKIP: 0 seats (0%)
Green Party: 0 seats (0%)
Others: 1 seat (2%)
Total: 59

Results in 2010: Wales

Labour: 26 seats (58%)
Conservatives: 8 seats (18%)
Liberal Democrats: 8 seats (18%)
Plaid Cymru: 3 seats (7%)
UKIP: 0 seats (0%)
Green Party: 0 seats (0%)
Others: 0 seats (0%)
Total: 45

Results in 2010: Northern Ireland

Conservatives: 0 seats (0%)
Labour: 0 seats (0%)
Liberal Democrats: 0 seats (0%)
UKIP: 0 seats (0%)
Green Party: 0 seats (0%)
Others: 18 (100%)
Total: 18

Total

Conservatives: 302 seats (46%)
Labour: 256 seats (39%)
Liberal Democrats: 56 seats (9%)
SNP: 6 seats (1%)
Plaid Cymru: 3 seats (0%)
UKIP: 2 seats (0%)
Green Party: 1 seat (0%)
Others: 22 seats (3%)
Total: 650

Conservatives

England: 294 seats (55%)
Scotland: 1 seat (2%)
Wales: 8 seats (18%)
Northern Ireland: 0 seats (0%)
Total: 302 seats (46%)

Labour

England: 191 seats (36%)
Scotland: 40 seats (68%)
Wales: 26 seats (58%)
Northern Ireland: 0 seats (0%)
Total: 256 seats (39%)

Liberal Democrats

England: 42 seats (8%)
Scotland: 11 seats (19%)
Wales: 8 seats (18%)
Northern Ireland (0%)
Total: 56 seats (9%)

UKIP

England: 2 seats (0%)
Scotland: 0 seats (0%)
Wales: 0 seats (0%)
Northern Ireland: 0 seats (0%)
Total: 2 seats (0%)

Green Party

England: 1 seat (0%)
Scotland: 0 seats (0%)
Wales: 0 seats (0%)
Northern Ireland: 0 seats (0%)
Total: 1 seat (0%)

Come back tomorrow to see how the 2015 general election compares with the previous results.

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